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Top Ten Tuesday-Bookish Wishlist

Hi! It’s been a few weeks, but I’m back. Jana hosts Top Ten Tuesday @thatartsyreadergirl. This weekly meme is born out of our love of lists and brings the book blogging community together. Jana will post a topic each week, and we bloggers will make our own list based on that topic. We can also do our own thing if we don’t have any ideas for that week. This week, our topic is Bookish Wishlist and I love this topic. Books are separated by genre.

Middle-Grade

1- Shiny Misfits: A Graphic Novel by Maysoon Zayid, and Shadia Amin (Illustrator)

 This book sounds so cute! I love the rep and I want to own this.

2- Any Way You Look by Maleeha Siddiqui

I really enjoyed a book by this author before. I am interested in this book because the themes sound interesting.

3- South of Somewhere by Kalena Miller

This is another book that came out in April.  I love Shannon in the Spotlight by this author last year. I want to check this one out because the story seems interesting.

YA

4- Bite Me, Royce Taslim by Lauren Ho

I am so eager to read this one! I  love the Enemies/Rivals to Lovers trope, and this one seems well done.

5- I Wish You Would by Eva Des-Lauriers

This book sounds like drama, and I need it. I can’t wait to see the relationship unfold.

6- Zoe Rosenthal Is Not A Lawful Good by Nancy Werlin

Goodreads says I’ve wanted to read this book since December 2020. I love the title of it, being a fan of DND and books. I love books about fandom and cons so that’s another reason I want to read this. The main character seems to be someone I can relate to, so I really want to read this book this year.

7- But I’m Eponine: Book One in the Altoverse by Christine Dzidrums

If you’ve been around this blog for a while, you know that I love musicals and books that has theater. I can’t wait to read this book and see all the theater references.

Adult

8- Love At First Book by Jenn McKinlay

This book sounds so cute! I want to read more books set in Ireland and this book sounds like the perfect place to start. I can’t wait to read this one.

9- Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

I’ve not read Lynn Painter yet. This book sounds so fun, and I definitely want to grab the ebook or audiobook.

10- Barely Even Friends by Mae Bennett

Another thing you will know about me if you’ve been around this blog for a while is that I’m a huge Disney fan. I saw the cover and title of this book, and I knew that I needed to read it. I was not paying attention to the date, so I didn’t know this book came out this week. I’m going to try and get a copy of the book before the end of the year.

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General Blog Update- National Novel Writing Month

Hello! As you may have noticed, the blog has not been as active this month. The reason is that during National Novel Writing Month; I focus on a Fiction Story, and Fanfic when I’m in the mood for a fanfic.  I wanted to take this time to tell you about the story I’m working on this month. I’m calling the project It’s a Family Thing, and it’s a YA Story about three sisters: Imogen-18, Cass/Cassie-15 (turning 16 throughout the story), and Phoebe-Cass’s twin-15 who turns 16 throughout the story. Each of the sisters had an element of me: Imogen is interested in books, and runs a blog. Cass is a theater kid, and writing her character is really bringing me back to when I was in high school, and heavily involved with theater and choir. Phoebe is interested in a lot of things and is in many clubs, but my plan is to lean heavily into DND and Table role-playing, along with video games in general which I have really grown to love over the last few years. These elements in the story are fun, and I’m very much enjoying this story. As of writing this post, the project word count is 11,360 out of 50,000. This is the most passion I’ve had for a project in the last few years of doing National Novel Writing Month. This was a story that I did base planning for, but I still left it open to writing a lot of the scenes with no plans,  which is how I prefer writing. 

When I’m not working on my YA project, I’m working on Fanfiction. I have a few projects on the go right now. If you’ve been around this blog for a while, you know that I’m a big fan of Critical Role, and those characters are my inspiration for stories. I have an AU of Six Times We Almost Kissed, and One Time We Did with Beau and Yasha from Campaign Two, and an AU with characters from Campaign Three.